So, let's discuss our workout routines.

[Denninmi]

I would post in Exercise and Fitness, but it gets like 2 posts a week in a good week.

So, what do you do? How long have you been doing it? What results has it yielded?

[progressoid]

1. Unfortunately,

this...

[Denninmi]

3. People might assume that about me, too

But I was reading and posting this morning during my workout, while I was doing leg presses with 220 lbs of weight on the equipment.

It can be done, it's never too late. There are people at my gym in their 80s. It's quite inspiring. As well as a number of people with disabilities, and one gentleman who is a fixture with his portable oxygen.

[onehandle]

2. I usually make it to the gym 5 or 6 times a week.

Day one: I do cardio on the treadmill or elliptical.

Day two: I do my arms, shoulders, chest with machines and hand weights.

Day three: I do my stomach, back, and legs with machines, benches.

Then I repeat.

Doesn't always happen exactly like that, depending on my whims. I don't beat myself up on strictness.

I don't lift my full capacity. I like to lift a medium amount of weights and get my heart rate up while doing it.

Been doing this for about fifteen years.

People think I am ten or more years younger than I am, so I must be doing something right.

[Denninmi]

4. 15 years? That's great.

I try and make it 6 days out of 7, and I have a repeat on one day, soon to be 2 days.

I also try to do both cardio and strength training each day. Breaks up the monotony. Cardio is kinda boring at times, at least indoors and tethered to a machine.

[onehandle]

6. Yeah, I hate cardio. That's one reason for my lighter weights and more reps method.

To get my heart rate up and avoid the hamster wheels.

There must be a name for that type of weight workout.

Bringing my iPad with me has made cardio machine days much more pleasant.

[Xyzse]

5. I do Beachbody work outs

I started with Insanity in 2010.
I finished it, then went and did P90X.

I went and did P90X and Hal Higdon's novice marathon training.
Then I got RevAbs, which after doing the first two was too easy.
I did a hybrid of all 3.

Then got Asylum....
Then got P90X-2
...
I am currently doing Les Mills Body Combat, after slacking just after Thanksgiving.

I sometimes take a week off before starting up another program. Sometimes I take a week learning a class from Groupon. I was able to do some Parkour, Capoeira and kick boxing.

I also do Bikram Yoga during the week off before starting a new program.

Results, are nice. I pretty much plateaud though, but I don't really want to become more muscular than I already am.

Usually, after Insanity my Blood Pressure goes down significantly but rises again when I do anything else like weight training.

My teambeachbody profile pic is from 2010. I am just a little bit more defined than that.
My problem is lack of sleep, poor food and anxiety.

However, after stretching out a bit, I can hit my knees with my forehead. So, my results really are, to be able to go to most gym classes without making a fool out of myself and keep up.

I sincerely recommend doing any of these programs. My reasoning is, I have a hard time with going to a gym. I am just not as focused as when I try to keep up with a program. It keeps me on task.

If I go to a gym, there is soooo much, so many distractions. So, I only go to groupon/living social classes that allow me to just do a week.

So, as mentioned, my current routine is Les Mills Body Combat.
It is a lot of punching and kicking. It is a great work out for less than an hour mostly. It makes me feel invigorated afterwards, unlike Insanity which just makes me want to collapse.

Once I finish Body Combat, I just got George St. Pierre's Rush Fit, which is the next program I will do.

[hibbing]

7. Bike bike and then bike

Hey,
I bicycle to work everyday besides when there is snow or ice. Then on the weekend I get as much as I can in depending on how cold it is out. When it gets warmer I try to get in 40-50 miles each Saturday and Sunday. Now I know why real cyclists can eat so much.

Send me a pm about the Pug in the snow will ya?

Peace

[Denninmi]

9. Excellent.

"Excellent, Smithers, Excellent" - C. Montgomery Burns.

[woodsprite]

8. I'm just getting started.

This past week, I've been walking a mile a day. That's a lot for me since my job is sitting at a desk 8 hrs a day coding forms. I'm sore in the mornings when I wake up. If I could lose 100 lbs, I'd be happy. If I could lose 135 lbs, I'd be ecstatic! But right now, my first goal is 26 lbs. I have to be really careful with my knees (subluxing patellas), so I'm doing Leslie Sansone's walking videos since they're low impact. The 1 mile I can even bring up on YouTube on my phone and do it in 15-20 min. while I fix dinner. I would love to see a 20 lb drop by my 50th birthday in April, but that may be too optimistic.

I had cancer surgery 5 yrs ago and that put me into instant menopause. I'm fine now, but over those past 5 years I've put on even more weight. This week starts my 1st week of the South Beach diet (phase 1) to see if it still works for me. It worked like a dream 7 yrs ago, and I had effortlessly dropped 40 lbs. I was doing SBD and alternating Walk Away the Pounds and T-tapp (kindof a mix between yoga and tai-chi). I was taking a few supplements/vitamins, fish oil, flax seed, watching my fiber intake. If I had only kept it all up... The darned health issues sent me into a mix of a pity-party, survival-the-immediate-crisis tailspin that I'm finally clawing my way out of. Physically I seemed to come through that part of the challenge fine, but the mental and emotional parts have taken awhile to kick to the ground.

My impetus is my health: being around for my kids (a 19yo and a 12yo), and being around to enjoy my retirement with my hubby (as of today, I have 3081 days, 1 hr, 11 min to go Hopefully with global warming, the beaches we love will still be there when we do (Hatteras, Ocracoke, Sanibel and Gasparilla).

Added: I work in a department at a school where they've made a standup, a treadmill and excer-bike workstations available for us to schedule. I'm too self-conscious to do that right now, but it's available to me if I 'get over it'. Work also gets me free use of an employee or student gym across campus. During the school year, it's hard for me to get over there for a 45-60 min. workout fitting it in between work, dinner, homework and extracurricular activities. I have met with a trainer over there and do have a 'program' defined when I can eek enough me-time somewhere in the mix of things.

Here's to a happier and healthier New Year! Thirteen has always been my lucky number!

[Jamaal510]

10. My routine is unorthodox and a little complicated to explain.

I have both a treadmill and TheRack workout station. I make sure to spend an hour doing both each day.

With TheRack, I flip a coin for the # of exercises I will do one day. For each time it lands on heads, it is an additional exercise added and time docked from the treadmill. For example, if the coin lands on heads once, I end up doing 2 Rack exercises before doing the treadmill. Both of them are a total of 20 minutes each, plus the treadmill would also be 20 minutes. If it lands on heads twice, then it's 3 Rack exercises that I'll do. These 3 exercises would be 15 minutes each, rather than 20. If I don't get heads at all, then I only do one exercise for 30 minutes, and then use the treadmill for the other 30 minutes. Since I always listen to my iPod while I work out, I do one set of reps for every song that plays until time is up.

With the treadmill, the time that I stay on depends on how many types of Rack exercises I do. I stay on no longer than 30 minutes per day if I did only one type of Rack exercise.
For each song I listen to while on the treadmill, I raise the incline to match the # of minutes into my treadmill session at the start of every song. If it's over 15 minutes (my treadmill's max incline is 15), then I continue the process, except in reverse.